Bring a Friend : Strengthening Women’s Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India
This paper experimentally tests whether enabling individuals to incentivize others to socialize with them can strengthen social networks and improve well-being. The paper examines family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially i...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099443506272238027/IDU061b4bd530f84804a0c095190c2f7eff9bfe1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37625 |
| Summary: | This paper experimentally tests
whether enabling individuals to incentivize others to
socialize with them can strengthen social networks and
improve well-being. The paper examines family planning
access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated
and for whom peer support may overcome intrahousehold
constraints. Enabling women to jointly visit a clinic with
other women not only increased social ties and strengthened
peer engagement, but also increased clinic visits and
contraceptive use. Moreover, this intervention was more
effective in improving reproductive autonomy of women who
faced greater intrahousehold opposition than an intervention
that only improved women’s own access to the clinic. |
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